Re: Charles
Schulz

: : : : : : : : : : The term 'bad
hair day' did in fact originate in the UK in 1991 uttered from the lips of Dr
Alexandra Bartys, a much inspired and creative soul at the age of 17 years. Her
utterances of having a bad hair day were recorded at school having woken up late
and burnt the toast and then realised she could do nothing with her hair.

:
: : : : : : : : Oh, come on now. I now I heard this in the early 70s, if not before.

:
: : : : : : : BAD HAIR DAY -- n. a day on which one's hair is particularly
unmanageable; hence, a day on which everything seems to go wrong. Colloquial,
originally US. 1994 Post (Denver): Soon you will notice how much less complaining
you do, even on bad hair days. From "20th Century Words: The Story of New Words
in English Over the Last 100 Years" by John Ayto (Oxford University Press, New
York, 1999).

: : : : : : : I found the html version of by googling "bad hair
day." It's a MS Word 2000 document listing the title of "Snoopy" cartoon strips
which were created by Charles M. Schultz over most of the second half of the 20th
century. The title listed for the November 23, 1962 strip is "Violet's Bad Hair
Day."

:
: : : : Excellent. I'll follow that up and update the database if I can confirm
it.

: : : : : Gary

: : : : Whoops, I think it's Charles M. Schulz, not Schultz.

: : : Right. The spelling is Schulz.

: : A new book, "Peanuts: The Art of
Charles M. Schulz," has several of his earlier strips. Maybe Bad Hair Day is in
that collection.

: I've contacted the soon-to-open Charles M. Schulz Museum
with an email to charlesmshulzmuseum.org. They ought to be able to help.

I finally
heard back from someone connected with the museum. That person forwarded me the
Peanuts strip in question, but indicated that her search revealed nothing about
the phrase 'bad hair day.' The strip does concern Violet having a 'bad hair day,'
but I am now wondering if the list of titles of Peanuts strips that I had uncovered
earlier is a list created by others, after the fact, to simply REFER to particular
Peanuts strips, rather than actual titles created by Mr. Schulz. If so, that would
mean that I have not, in fact, found a reference connecting the phrase to a publication
made as early as the strip date itself. I'll do a little more digging and report
back.